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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."


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Quote Left It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over. Quote Right
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Quote Left April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. Quote Right
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Quote Left My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and oh, my friends,
It gives a lovely light.
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Quote Left Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;... Quote Right
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Quote Left Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. Quote Right
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